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The Domestic and International Impacts of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic: Global Challenges, Global Solutions: Workshop Summary

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The Domestic and International Impacts of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic: Global Challenges, Global Solutions: Workshop Summary


<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>Front Matter (R1-R18)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Workshop Overview (1-85)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A Contributed Manuscripts Appendix A1 (86-100)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A2 PREDICTING EMERGING DISEASES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE CASE OF ZOONOTIC INFLUENZA (101-108)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A3 THE SPRING 2009 INFLUENZA A H1N1 OUTBREAK: A LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE (109-124)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A4 INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO VACCINES AND ANTIVIRALS IN THE CONTEXT OF 2009-H1N1 INFLUENZA (125-141)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A5 IN VITRO AND IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW SWINE-ORIGIN H1N1 INFLUENZA VIRUSES (142-178)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A6 ESTIMATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE NUMBER AND THE SERIAL INTERVAL IN EARLY PHASE OF THE 2009 INFLUENZA A⁄H1N1 PANDEMIC IN THE USA (179-196)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A7 THE SEVERITY OF PANDEMIC H1N1 INFLUENZA IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM APRIL TO JULY 2009: A BAYESIAN ANALYSIS (197-234)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A8 HARD CHOICES IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS: ETHICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES (235-253)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A9 RUMORS OF PANDEMIC: MONITORING EMERGING DISEASE OUTBREAKS ON THE INTERNET (254-268)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A10 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SEASONAL AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA A (H1N1) IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2009 (269-282)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A11 REFLECTIONS ON THE 1976 SWINE FLU VACCINATION PROGRAM (283-291)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A12 SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: A GLOBAL INFLUENZA WORLD (292-312)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A13 INFLUENZA (H1N1) PANDEMIC 2009 (313-330)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix A14 ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF THE 2009 SWINE-ORIGIN H1N1 INFLUENZA A EPIDEMIC (331-366)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix B Agenda (367-370)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix C Acronyms (371-372)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix D Glossary (373-378)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Appendix E Forum Member Biographies (379-396)</td></tr></tbody></table>
 
Re: The Domestic and International Impacts of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic: Global Challenges, Global Solutions: Workshop Summary

2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus -

First post on FluTrackers - April 17th, 2009, 02:56 PM

The Discovery of the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic - Mexico: April 17 New Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca


The first public posting of this information in the world.


as per page 262 in post above:

March 11 - Symptoms of swine flu in person in Mexico - but not identified until May 5.

March 30 - Sick boy in Southern California goes to the Naval Hospital in San Diego for treatment.

April 1 - This virus is determine to be A but can not be subtyped.

April 11 - PAHO asks Mexico to characterize reported virus outbreak there.

April 12 - Mexico informs PAHO that they consider this virus a "potential public health event with international importance".

April 17 - FluTrackers posts first public notification on this event and starts thread to investigate the situation. Our notes show as of April 23rd ProMed had not posted on this situation.

April 21 - Samples from Mexico arrive at PHAC for analysis.

April 22 - CDC mentions San Diego cases in MMWR.

April 23 - CDC and PHAC confirm that samples from Mexico are A/H1N1 of Swine origin.


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As far as I can tell we are not mentioned as an informal source of disease information for this event in the above referenced paper.

This is a obvious error and casts doubt on the entire process used to evaluate the internet for the purposes of this paper.

Thank you to the devoted and tireless volunteers here at FluTrackers who worked to provide the first public notification of this event to the world.

It makes no difference whether this paper acknowledges our contribution or not. Many, many know.

And we know in our hearts.


"It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear."

Thoreau
 
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I have deleted this post. Sorry for posting it.
 
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